Adding one more wireless router slows things down?

[Frank Pardue]

You didn't really supply enough info to offer much advice. Info like what is the purpose of the second router, how does it connect to the network, is it functioning as a relay point for the primary router at Point A, or is it serving to supply another wireless connection to a Point C. If it is suppling another connection then yes it can/will slow down your connection if a lot of data is being downloaded over it at the same time as you are doing a download. As an example lets assume that the ISP connection at point A has a max speed of 6 Mbps, but that feeds two connections, you at point B and a second at Point C. If PointB and C are both downloading big files at the same time, then the 6 Mbps has to be split between the two outgoing connections, under ideal conditions each connection would have a max speed of 3 Mbps. But ideal conditions rarely exist, so in all likelyhood one of the server will be faster than the other, so a 4/2 Mbps split could easily occur. Plus some servers can be very busy so even if the 6 Mbps connection isn't full you may still only get a 2 Mbps download speed, or maybe your ISP servers are busy, so the download speed is less than the max. I would use a download speed test site like the one linked below to test speed at different times over several days and see what kind of results you get.

http://www.dslreports.com/stest